Re: Lojban word processor for Windows?

[mark@kli.org]

>Cc: mark@kli.org, lojban@onelist.com
>From: sdlee@csis.hku.hk (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~})
>Date: 18 Sep 1999 04:00:19 +0800
>
>>>>>> "David" == David Brookshire Conner <nellardo@concentric.net> writes:
>
>    David> My first try on this (since writing the email earlier
>    David> today) assumes each bridi has it's own "paragraph". The
>    David> first bridi in a .ni'o paragraph has no automatic text, and
>    David> is a "run-in" heading, which means the next para starts on
>    David> the same line this one finishes on. You use a new .ni'o
>    David> style for a .ni'o paragraph, which starts on its own
>    David> line. The ".ni'o" is inserted automatically, and the
>    David> ".ni'o" hangs into the left margin, which makes paragraphs
>    David> easy to spot. It's also consistent with ".ni'oni'o" and
>    David> such.
>
>Rather than  having the compute suddenly  spit out some  text, I would
>prefer  that  it automatically  recognizes  that  I'm  starting a  new
>paragraph when  I type ".ni'o" and  hence does the right  thing for me
>(e.g. hangs ".ni'o" to the left, ".ni'oni'o" further left, etc.)
>
>Well... this is just my personal taste.  

I'm with you.  When I programmed in Pascal (it was for school, sorry) I
always used to disable Pascal-abbrev-mode because I didn't like the machine
trying to complete my code for me.  Maybe I don't WANT begin/end pairs.  Or
whatever.  Or maybe I just like typing everything in.

>Has anyone of you brought up syntax-highlighting using font-lock-mode?
>It'd be nice to have the gismu, rafsi and cmavo displayed in different
>colors.  Better still, different  categories of cmavo can be displayed
>in  their own  colors, with  open  cmavo have  the same  color as  the
>closing ones (such as "le" and "ku").

In fact, paren-matching would be a HANDY thing (and more
device-independent) for terminators.

~mark